REVOLT IN GREECE ?

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3090, 22 May 1917, Page 5

REVOLT IN GREECE ?

A CONFUSED MESSAGE

ITALY TO NAME NEW RULER ' (R«c. May 22. 0.50 a.m.) - Washington, May 21. A report has reached Washington to the effect that Qreeeo is in revolution, and that Italy has been asked to name the new Greek ruler.—Keuter. . , [The above message, as received, _ was confused. It read, in the original: "Washington hears Greece Tiritik revolution guns mounted Italy to name new Greek ruler."! Athens, May 21. The situation here is critical. No bread' is available in the markets or restaurtyjts. The military authorities are concealing provisions, and private speculators are withholding supplies. The peo. pie are resenting these taotics.—United Service. . ONTHE MACEDONIAN FRONT HEAVY FIGHTING REPORTED London, May 20. Admiralty, per Wireless' Press.— K German official report states: "On the Macedonian front wo heavily repulsed several attack? eastward of the Cerna." —Aus.-N.Z, Cable Assn.-Iteuter.

During these lait four months (writes Mr. Ward Price from Salonika in March last) the Allies have been constantly developing their strength.- The roads have been, improved, and last month the Italians, coming up from the Adriatic, joined hands with the French advancing through Albania from Fiorina to meet them. A continuous front from the Adriatic to the Aegean was thus made, and the llank of our army at Monastir was guaranteed against trouble from bands of irregnlai'a in onemy pay who were roaming about in those mountains. Rest, reinforcement, and a general development and enlargement of its basis of operations has, then, been the result of the pause which winter enforced upon our Balkan army. The spring oft'ensivo thus opens in better conditions than ruled over the campaign of last year, which was- so handicapped by lack of men, by summer fevers, and, above all, by the transport difficulties inherent to the country. Whatever the army accomplished was done only by using every ounce of available strength to the full limit of oapacity. The action now going on, which aims at freeing the country north and north-west of Monaatir, is divided by Lake Prespa into two separate sectors. The French forces between Lakes Prespa and Ochrida arei pushing northeast towards Resna, and) others are attacking in a converging direction northwestwards from Monastir. All the fightin" is among mountains, and supply 19 particularly difficult. The French troops north of LeskoVocs, on the west sido of Lako Prespa, must, for instance, be supplied round the south end of the lain from Fiorina over nearly 100 miles of mountainous road. There are passos so steep that only endless strings of packhorses can bring up to them the material that is brought by motor-lornes where the gradients are less severe.